1. The Body is the primary mode of perceiving:
Touch-
to come in contact with you hands, fingers etc.
Hear-
perceive with the ear the sound made.
Smell-
perceive or detect the odor or scent
Taste-
perceive or experience the flavor of
Sight-
manage to see or observe.
2. Capacity of Objects to Serve as Traces of authetic experience:
3. The souvenir reduces the public, the monument and the three demensional into the minature, which can be eveloped by the body:
4. Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss:
Stuffed backscratcher cat
a thought for a lovely gift
left ungiven that day
5. To have a souvenir of the Exotic is to posses both a specimen and a trophy:
This is an object of memory for my father . He bought it in a market place somewhere in the mountains of Ecuador, where my mother and he spent a pre-wedding vacation. It’s trophy for him, because it had been the first time he had been to South America, where the place his bride-to-be grew up till the age of 7, and also where I, his firstborn, was conceived.
7. Place of Origin must remain unavailable in order for desire to be generated:
This is Ecuador. My Ecuador. A thousand miles away, and it feels like my heart has stretched thus far. Though it is not my birth-right, nor my true place of origin, it’ll forever be mine. Just a piece of my soul that I don’t believe I’ll ever have again…
-Marcela H. Shull
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